Fri, 12 Jun 2009

My last Toastmasters speech was on open formats: why you should use
open formats rather than closed/proprietary ones and the risks of
closed formats.

To make it clearer, I wanted to print out handouts people could take home
summarizing some of the most common closed formats, along with
open alternatives.

Surely there are lots of such tables on the web, I thought.
I'll just find one and customize it a little for this specific audience.

To my surprise, I couldn't find a single one. Even
openformats.org didn't
have very much.

So I started one:
Open vs. Closed Formats.
It's far from complete, so
I hope I'll continue to get contributions to flesh it out more.

And the talk? It went over very well, and people appreciated the
handout. There's a limit to how much information you can get across
in under ten minutes, but I think I got the point across.
The talk itself, such as it is, is here:
Open up!